{"quotes":[{"text":"We all die. Not all of us live.","author":"Edie Littlefield Sundby","tags":["adversity","advice-for-daily-living","cancer","christian","courage","courage","death","death","empowering","empowerment","faith","faith-in-yourself","faith","fear","fear","god","god-s-grace","god-s-love","gods-grace","happy","happy","health","hope","hope","illness","illness-and-hope","inspirational","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","love","love","self-confidence","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","spiritual","spirituality","strength","strength-and-courage","strength-of-mind","strength-of-spirit","strength-of-will","strength","strength-through-adversity","walk","walker","walking","well-being","wellbeing","wellness","wisdom"],"id":69965,"author_id":"Edie+Littlefield+Sundby"},{"text":"You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["cities","citizens","city","clean environment","clean surroundings","cleanliness","disease-prevention","duties","environment","environmental-conservation","environmental-degradation","environmental-protection","environmental-values","families","famous","healing","health-and-fitness","healthy-living","homes","illness","illness-and-hope","inspiring","inspiring-words","living-life","responsibilities","responsibility-to-protect","wisdom","wise","wise-words","work-ethic","working-together"],"id":77573,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I don't need to write light, to see light. You are only disabled, if you disable yourself. I may have an illness, but I am not the illness Truth is, despite what they may say, I'll get out of this world alive. I am the Gospel of Myself.","author":"Alexej Savreux","tags":["acceptance-of-oneself","illness-and-hope","spirituality"],"id":77900,"author_id":"Alexej+Savreux"},{"text":"I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["believe","courage","crps","faith","hope","illness","illness-and-hope","inspire","keep-fighting","strength"],"id":136248,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.","author":"Edie Littlefield Sundby","tags":["adversity","advice-for-daily-living","cancer","christian","courage","courage","death","death","empowering","empowerment","faith","faith-in-yourself","faith","fear","fear","god","god-s-grace","god-s-love","gods-grace","happy","happy","health","hope","hope","illness","illness-and-hope","inspirational","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","love","love","self-confidence","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","spiritual","spirituality","strength","strength-and-courage","strength-of-mind","strength-of-spirit","strength-of-will","strength","strength-through-adversity","walk","walker","walking","well-being","wellbeing","wellness","wisdom"],"id":150664,"author_id":"Edie+Littlefield+Sundby"},{"text":"Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["gratitude","illness-and-hope","strength"],"id":156984,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","arrogance","arrogant","attitude","attitude","better","fail","failure","failure","funny","grateful","gratitude","happiness","happy","hope","humor","humour","ill","illness","illness-and-hope","illness","motivation","perception","positivity","satire","success","success","successful","talent","talent","talented","talents","thankful","worse","worst"],"id":175912,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, you’re not sick. I decided right then and there that no matter what cancer did to me I would continue to move. Movement was what the physical body was designed to do; it was how it coped and functioned. Movement was vitality. It was life.I would move. Always. No matter what. Until my last breath, I would move.","author":"Edie Littlefield Sundby","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","cancer","christian","courage","courage-adversity","courage","death","death","empowering","empowerment","faith","faith-in-yourself","faith","fear","fear","god","god-s-grace","god-s-love","gods-grace","happy","happy","health","hope","hope","illness","illness-and-hope","inspirational","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","love","love","self-confidence","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","spiritual","spirituality","strength","strength-and-courage","strength-of-mind","strength-of-spirit","strength-of-will","strength","strength-through-adversity","walk","walker","walking","well-being","wellbeing","wellness","wisdom"],"id":182157,"author_id":"Edie+Littlefield+Sundby"},{"text":"I thank God every day for this life, and I want there to be more, though that’s not known. What is known is that I’m alive today, this minute. And that’s pretty much what we all have – this day, this moment.","author":"Edie Littlefield Sundby","tags":["adversity","advice-for-daily-living","cancer","christian","courage","courage","death","death","empowering","empowerment","faith","faith-in-yourself","faith","fear","fear","god","god-s-grace","god-s-love","gods-grace","happy","happy","health","hope","hope","illness","illness-and-hope","inspirational","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","love","love","self-confidence","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","spiritual","spirituality","strength","strength-and-courage","strength-of-mind","strength-of-spirit","strength-of-will","strength","strength-through-adversity","walk","walker","walking","well-being","wellbeing","wellness","wisdom"],"id":218874,"author_id":"Edie+Littlefield+Sundby"},{"text":"My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: 'With a façade like that, I could even accept having a deformed child.' I accepted Tito's cerebral palsy.I accepted it as if it were the most natural thing in the world. I accepted it with delight. I accepted it with enthusiasm. I accepted it with love.","author":"Diogo Mainardi","tags":["cerebral-palsy","family-love","illness","illness-and-hope","memoir","memoires"],"id":226280,"author_id":"Diogo+Mainardi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}